Chapter 53: A Mess
I didn't expect to sneak out at night to have a good time, and I accidentally got such a big clue, so coincidentally, if we stepped out of the 'door' earlier, we would have missed. I couldn't suppress some 'agitation', and I didn't even know that I grabbed Brother Lin's arm.
unintentionally 'inserted' willows into the shade, and finally came out!
Brother Lin shouldn't know why I was so 'excited', patted my hands comfortingly, and kept silent.
I tried to calm my emotions, took a deep breath, and tried to be as calm as possible: "During the birthday banquet of the old lady of the Su family, I once went to the Su Mansion to celebrate her birthday, and I saw several aunts in her house, I don't know what kind of characteristics this person Brother Liu said, maybe I still have a little impression." ”
Brother Lin shook his head: "Her figure looks delicate and weak, small and exquisite, her hair and face are covered tightly with a cloak, and she really can't see her face clearly." He had the aroma of fat powder on his body and two emerald rings on his hands, each the size of a pigeon's egg. ”
Several aunts in the house usually pay attention to health, most of them are thinner, and the jewelry has been added a lot, every day is constantly changing' the 'flower', the two rings may be worth a lot in the eyes of others, but in Sufu, the aunts are happy, and they may casually reward the mother-in-law to drink the girl, which is really nothing rare.
I was inevitably a little disappointed, but I still didn't give up and continued to ask, "What about the others?" For example, is her foot a heavenly foot or a three-inch golden lotus? What are the characteristics between the eyebrows and eyes? What about the accent of the speaker? ”
Liu Kuaishou looked at me a little strangely, probably seeing me asking a series of questions, a little inexplicable: "Why is this young lady so concerned?" I'll just talk about it, don't take it seriously. We're a bunch of big guys together, and we're used to being noisy. ”
I was inevitably a little anxious, Brother Lin secretly tugged at my cuffs, signaled me to calm down, and smiled at Liu Kuaishou: "She listened to what you said, a bit like an aunt she knew well, she has been practicing medicine since elementary school, and she likes to study these strange things on weekdays." ”
As soon as Liu Kuaishou heard what Brother Lin said, he looked back at Lu Jiu who was drinking and drinking behind him: "I'll just say yes, that person wears a Luo skirt with a drag in his cloak, and only 'exposes' a toe, how can an aunt who is not from a big family wear it like this?" Between the eyebrows and eyes, there is nothing special about it, willow eyebrows and apricot eyes. As for the accent, it seems to be a little weird, speaking is our local accent, and the tail note is slightly upturned, but the bamboo leaf green is not called bamboo leaf green, but called grass head green. This is a kind of name for the Bashu side, where they often drink a kind of tea called 'bamboo leaf green', in order to distinguish it, it is called this poisonous snake 'grass head green'. ”
I thought about it carefully, most of the aunts in the house are natives, and the fourth aunt was sold from a foreign official, but she has always been with me in the Fuhua Nunnery and has not left a step. Qingchou's biological aunt and sixth aunt seem to be the 'daughter' son whom her father met in business in other places. There is also a tenth aunt who was born in an opera, and I haven't heard where her ancestral home is.
But Aunt Ten entered the house late, and was carried into the house by my father only after I was born, and the previous events had nothing to do with her. So, will it be the sixth aunt, the 'female' who is submissive to her mother and cleverly welcomes her.
However, simply by virtue of the name of a poisonous snake, it is impossible to count, nor can it be used as evidence to suspect them. It seems like a big discovery, but in fact, there are no clues. The only thing that is certain is that she will inevitably continue to shoot in the near future.
I was a little disappointed, and said perfunctorily: "What Brother Liu said is indeed true, but I can't be sure if you describe something different from the aunt I thought." ”
Liu Kuaishou smiled heartily: "It's okay, it's okay, after three glasses of wine in a while, I will forget about this matter, and I will say it as a rare thing, you can listen to the excitement." ”
Someone behind him urged Liu Kuaishou to go over to drink, and I saw that there was nothing to inquire about, so I said goodbye and left with Brother Lin and went back to the Fuhua Nunnery together.
The next morning, when my grandmother and aunt were doing their homework, I sneaked out of the back door and came to the back mountain.
During the morning fast, I didn't hear anyone talking about what was going on in the back mountain, and it was obviously not noticed. I'm a little worried about the corpses. The Gu poison is powerful, if it is touched by someone who doesn't know, it's not a joke. Although I don't know, even if I see it, what can I do, I don't have the guts to deal with these corpses alone, just improvise.
Also, I want to see if there are any clues left by those people yesterday that can be deduced from their identities.
Who would have expected that in the apricot forest in the back mountain, it was treated cleanly, and even the ground was carefully washed with water, without a trace of blood. If it weren't for the fact that the stumps of the nearby branches that were swept away by the sword wind yesterday were red, I would have doubted that yesterday's events had really happened.
It is still the apricot 'flower' forest, or the clear stream, but there is no longer the poetic and picturesque feeling of the past, which makes me feel a little 'yin' for no reason. He stopped being nostalgic and turned back to the nunnery.
However, I will still keep in mind the account of the so-called Sword Venerable Shura's sneak attack on me behind my back, it is best not to let me see him again, even if I am not his opponent at all, hitting a stone with an egg, I will let him taste the 100-day drunkenness that I personally concocted!
For two days in a row, I obeyed the rules, and I didn't dare to go outside again, and now the world doesn't seem to be as peaceful as it seems, but I don't dare to rely on the fact that I have read a few medical books, which will make some carving insect skills have no fear.
A small Su Mansion hides the dragon and crouching tiger, and hides a poison master. It's easy to 'play' me between applause, and a little trick can drive me into this barren mountain. Now I have encountered another master who is good at Gu poison, and it is very likely that he still wants to take my 'life'. There are people outside the people, there are mountains outside the mountains, I still honestly guard my green lantern ancient Buddha, and it is safer to recite Amitabha.
The next night, Brother Lin brought me news.
That little Taoist boy was originally a homeless boy named 'Hua' in Yangzhou City, but because of his cleverness, he was taken in by Yiyang Zhenren and started these deceptions. After Yiyang Zhenren was killed, he didn't want to go back to the Tao and be bound by that dogma, but he was not as comfortable as begging, so he started his old job again.
Brother Lin's friend found the trace of the little Taoist boy at the corner of the downtown street, and before he could show his intention, the Taoist boy became alert and ran away.
He originally knew a lot of people called 'flowers' in the city, so when he was chasing him, something went wrong. There were quite a few 'flowers' who asked him to cover for him, and told him to run away under his nose. When I looked for him again, I heard that he had left Yangzhou City, and I was afraid that he was no longer here.
Brother Lin was very guilty at the time, feeling that his gang was fierce and vicious, and scared Xiaodao Tong, so he 'made' it self-defeating, which made me a little unhappy.
Obviously, the cause of Yiyang Zhenren's death, Xiao Daotong must be well aware, so he is afraid that he will also be killed and killed, and his vigilance is very high. I'm afraid that if he really left Yangzhou City, this clue will be broken.
Liu Wenpo is even easier to find, she was originally in this Yangzhou City, she was a figure known to many people. I heard that she talked nonsense back then, provoked the relationship between the second lady and the eighth aunt, angered the second lady's family, and a group of people broke into her house, only saying that she killed someone's life when she delivered the baby.
After her son got married, her daughter-in-law thought she was burdensome and drove her out. She lives alone in an abandoned kiln on the outskirts of the city, and the evening scene is bleak. So Brother Lin just gave her two taels of silver, and she admitted it calmly, but in order to shirk her responsibilities and keep her signboard, she held a grudge against the second lady in front of the mother-in-law, so she made something out of nothing, saying that the mother-in-law had poisoned the baby, and she had no credentials.
However, there is one thing that she insists on, it is not that she made it up by herself, that is, the fetus was indeed poisoned and died at that time, not normal suffocation, and the responsibility is not on her.
Although she didn't see it with her own eyes when Mrs. Wang poisoned, it was not empty, after all, only she and Mrs. Wang were present at the time, and the baby was poisoned, so I don't suspect that it was Mrs. Wang's hands and feet.
Therefore, Liu Wenpo said this matter so firmly in front of the eighth aunt, and the eighth aunt was convinced.
Brother Lin asked her how she was so sure that the fetus was poisoned and died, at first she refused to say, but then Brother Lin threatened and 'coerced' and 'lured', and she told the truth.
It turned out that after the eighth aunt gave birth that day, because the fetus died young, according to customs, it was a blessed person, and it could not be entered into the ancestral grave, and it could not be buried thickly. So he told her to help and find a good place to bury it shallowly.
The eighth aunt felt sorry for the child again, and 'privately' brought a pair of longevity locks and bracelets made in advance to the child. Liu Wenpo saw the wealth, remembered the place, and after the Su family's men left, she secretly returned to get the child's funeral things. Only to find out that the child's ten nails had turned into jet-black colors. How can it be a normal death?
The baby died of poisoning, which was expected by me, so I was not too surprised, and Liu Wenpo's words were not of much value.
After returning home, I once suspected that the second lady, especially my mother, was poisoned, and she could be said to be the biggest beneficiary. And the mother's family is powerful, and many things are easy to do. It was my father who directly rejected my conjecture that night.
He said that the second lady was the most virtuous of all the 'women'. When she first married into the house, she was just an aunt. The Su family's business was not so smooth at that time, she was born in a businessman, and she was the most powerful assistant of her father. She knows everything about the Su family's business, as well as the accounts in the house. Later, the Su family encountered a crisis, and it was thanks to her many efforts at her mother's house that she successfully survived. If she wanted to harm the Su family, it would be easy at that time, and there was no need to work so hard at all.
Originally, her mother couldn't tolerate her father marrying another, but she was also moved by her virtue, and took the initiative to propose to her grandmother and father to treat her as a lady. The two respect each other and live in harmony.
If it comes to the dispute over family property, Brother Qingbo encountered kidnappers when he was a child, and it was the second wife who sacrificed herself to protect him, so Brother Qingbo picked up a 'life'. Therefore, it is even more impossible.
At first, I didn't believe what my father said, thinking that she might be hiding it deeply, or that something had happened over the years, but now, I think that the possibility of the second lady being poisoned is really not very 'sexual', otherwise, when the eighth aunt gave birth, she couldn't avoid it, how could she rush to her, arousing suspicion, and she couldn't argue.
I kept 'pulling' the cocoon from several things, and every time I suspected someone, there would always be unfounded reasons to contradict myself and contradict each other. So now it's still a 'mess' and I don't have a clue.
Brother Lin said: "Qingwu, have you ever considered such a possibility, the mastermind behind the scenes is not the same person? She can also have her own helpers in the house, and the one who killed the third aunt may not be the 'female' family in the house? ”
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